Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.Jonathan Swift
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
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But you think... that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
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The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
Jonathan Swift
'T is nothing when you are used to it.
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